Sorry to reply to my own mail, but...
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Gevaerts Frank wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Jeremy Wiebe wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I just bought a new hard drive and would like some advice.
> >
> > If I want to transfer the entire installation to a new, bigger hard drive,
> > will it work to just tar it up to a third drive and then untar it to the new
> > drive? (Or will this cause problems with the sizes of the drives being
> > different?)
>
> AFAIK you don't even need the third drive. Can't you make tar output to
> stdout, and another tar input from stdin, and put them in a pipeline ?
> I can't give you more specific help, as I usually use cpio.
> With cpio , you would do something like this:
>
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt # supposing your new drive is hdb1
> cd /
> find . -xdev -print | cpio -oc | (cd /mnt ; cpio -ict)
This should be:
find . -xdev -print | cpio -oc | (cd /mnt ; cpio -icmd)
Frank
> Frank
>
> >
> > Thought I'd ask about this before I do it so I don't have to get out my
> > RedHat 5.1 disc to reinstall if it messes up.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
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> >
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> >
>
> HI! I'm a .signature virus! cp me into your .signature file to help me spread!
>
>
HI! I'm a .signature virus! cp me into your .signature file to help me spread!
